CVE-2012-5519

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

CUPS 1.4.4, when running in certain Linux distributions such as Debian GNU/Linux, stores the web interface administrator key in /var/run/cups/certs/0 using certain permissions, which allows local users in the lpadmin group to read or write arbitrary files as root by leveraging the web interface.

CUPS 1.4.4, when running in certain Linux distributions such as Debian GNU/Linux, stores the web interface administrator key in /var/run/cups/certs/0 using certain permissions, which allows local users in the lpadmin group to read or write arbitrary files as root by leveraging the web interface.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-11-20 00:55:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-29 01:32:00

Affected Software

Apple CUPS 1.4.4

1.4.4

Debian Linux

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692791

Exploit

APPLE-SA-2013-06-04-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1041

SUSE-SU-2015:1044

openSUSE-SU-2015:1056

RHSA-2013:0580

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5784

[oss-security] 20121110 Privilege escalation (lpadmin -> root) in cups

[oss-security] 20121111 Re: Privilege escalation (lpadmin -> root) in cups

[oss-security] 20121111 Re: Privilege escalation (lpadmin -> root) in cups

56494

USN-1654-1

cups-systemgroup-priv-esc(80012)

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